Performer right protection under the scope of copyright act B.E. 2537 study in the case of reality show, game show, sport live broadcasting, fashion show, illusion show and actor on cinema
Abstract:
Present, we will see the demanding in the variation of the performer right protection because this protection will effect the benefit of the performer. The problem was the definition of the word performer in Copy right act B.E. 2537 section 4 which provide the protection for people who was standardized by the definition. This was the only definition which enforced in Thailand which impede some people, who performed as same as the performer who standardized by the definition, from the protection by this act. The fact demonstrated that the problem was the construe of the definition in Copy right act B.E. 2537 section 4, the definition of the word performer did not explained which kind of performer should be protected by the Copy right act B.E. 2537 section 4. The author founded that the protection in Copy right act B.E. 2537 section 4 provided the protection for the work with respect to a performer, musician, vocalist, choreographer, dancer, and a person who acts, sings, speaks, dubs a translation or narrates or gives commentary or performs in accordance with the scripter performs in any other manner. This shall not include the competitor in reality show, games show, athletic, narrator in the sport television broadcasting, performer who perform in the fashion show or as it called model. In the other hand, people who perform illusion show trick should acquire the protection according to the Copy right act B.E. 2537 section 4.